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...high rate of criminal activity. A Harvard University Police Department alert issued yesterday provided descriptions of both crimes and of the second intruder. Information about the first crime was not distributed—to Quincy residents or to the wider community—until five days after it occurred. The alert also warned residents to close their windows when leaving their rooms and not to hold doors open for strangers, a message emphasized over e-mail by Resident Dean Judith F. Chapman and House Master Lee Gehrke. Both strongly discouraged the act known as “piggybacking...
...officers responded to a call placed by the victims. Neither student was injured during the incident. They described the assailant as a heavy-set white male in his thirties with slight facial stubble. He was wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt. This incident marks the third violent crime to occur near the University in the last two weeks, though none have occurred on University property. A male graduate student was the victim of an unarmed robbery in Cambridge Common on Sept. 10. He was attacked by a group of teenagers after being distracted by an individual urinating on a tree...
...ascribes most of the current revision to a reassessment of the malaria epidemic in Asia (although the vast majority of malaria cases and deaths still occur in Africa, where the numbers for the continent remain mostly unchanged). Much of the Asian data, which was used in the 2005 WHO report to predict which regions had malaria-carrying mosquitoes - and therefore higher disease incidence - was already 40 years old, says Mac Otten, coordinator of the surveillance, monitoring and evaluation unit at the WHO's Global Malaria Program. Over the past four decades, the situation across Asia has changed dramatically. "With urbanization...
...report found that about 24% of the nationally representative sample of 1,961 women studied had symptoms of at least one pelvic-floor disorder, conditions that occur when the pelvic muscles and tissues are weakened or injured, according to Dr. Ingrid Nygaard, a urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. The disorders reported in the JAMA study included incontinence and pelvic-organ prolapse, the result of pelvic muscles so weakened that they can't hold organs, such as the uterus, correctly in place. Of the women who reported any symptom...
Mount said she was under the impression that a national search for a director would occur within the academic year, as she was asked to serve through only that period...